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Books on Economics and Political Economy
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THE POLITICS OF OBEDIENCE: THE DISCOURSE OF VOLUNTARY SERVITUDE ÉTIENNE DE LA BOÉTIE http://mises.org/rothbard/boetie.pdf Interesting Footnote, #19. Thus, Tolstoy writes: Quote:
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Field, 1948), pp. 42, 45. Notice what Tolstoy is saying, the easiest way for us to remove ourselves from the heel of JOG is to simply walk away, not participate in, nor support the legitimacy of this JOG. This is exactly what I and others have been trying to get across to many of you who continue to fall for the illusion that "working within the system", such as the A3P advocates, will get you anywhere. Conservatives vs. the Vanguard: Even Leo Tolstoy and Etienne de la Boetie is on the side of the Vanguard. Last edited by SmokyMtn; December 22nd, 2010 at 06:53 PM. |
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Individual Liberty: Selections From the Writings of
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This essential work's contents include: Foreword by Peter G. Klein Introduction by F.A. Hayek Translator's Preface Author's Preface I. The General Theory of the Good 1.The Nature of Goods 2.The Causal Connections Between Goods 3.The Laws Governing Goods-character 4.Time and Error 5.The Causes of Progress in Human Welfare 6.Property II. Economy and Economic Goods 1.Human Requirements 2.The Available Quantities 3.The Origin of Human Economy and Economic Goods 4.Wealth III. The Theory of Value 1.The Nature and Origin of Value 2.The Original Measure of Value 3.The Laws Governing the Value of Goods of Higher Order IV. The Theory of Exchange 1.The Foundations of Economic Exchange 2.The Limits of Economic Exchange V. The Theory of Price 1.Price Formation in an Isolated Exchange 2.Price Formation Under Monopoly 3.Price Formation and the Distribution of Goods under Bilateral Competition VI. Use Value and Exchange Value VII. The Theory of the Commodity 1.The Concept of the Commodity in its Popular and Scientific Meanings 2.The Marketability of Commodities VIII. The Theory of Money 1.The Nature and Origin of Money 2.The Kinds of Money Appropriate to Particular Peoples and to Particular Historical Periods 3.Money as a "Measure of Price" and as the Most Economic Form for Storing Exchangeable Wealth 4.Coinage Appendices Goods and "Relationships" Wealth The Nature of Value The Measure of Value The Concept of Capital Equivalence in Exchange Use Value and Exchange Value The Commodity Concept Designations for Money History of Theories of the Origin of Money |
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Frederic Bastiat The Bastiat Collection-Volume 1 http://mises.org/books/bastiat1.pdf Frederic Bastiat The Bastiat Collection-Volume 2 http://mises.org/books/bastiat2.pdf In two volumes, here is The Bastiat Collection, the main corpus of his writings in English in a restored and elegant translation that includes some of the most powerful defenses of free markets ever written. This restoration project has yielded a collection to treasure. After years of hard work and preparation, we can only report that it is an emotionally thrilling moment to finally offer to the general public. Claude Frédéric Bastiat was an economist and publicist of breathtaking intellectual energy and massive historical influence. He was born in Bayonne, France on June 29th, 1801. After the middle-class Revolution of 1830, Bastiat became politically active and was elected Justice of the Peace in 1831 and to the Council General (county-level assembly) in 1832. He was elected to the national legislative assembly after the French Revolution of 1848. Bastiat was inspired by and routinely corresponded with Richard Cobden and the English Anti-Corn Law League and worked with free-trade associations in France. Bastiat wrote sporadically starting in the 1830s, but in 1844 he launched his amazing publishing career when an article on the effects of protectionism on the French and English people was published in the Journal des Economistes which was held to critical acclaim. The bulk of his remarkable writing career that so inspired the early generation of English translators—and so many more—is contained in this collection. If we were to take the greatest economists from all ages and judge them on the basis of their theoretical rigor, their influence on economic education, and their impact in support of the free-market economy, then Frédéric Bastiat would be at the top of the list. As Murray N. Rothbard noted: "Bastiat was indeed a lucid and superb writer, whose brilliant and witty essays and fables to this day are remarkable and devastating demolitions of protectionism and of all forms of government subsidy and control. He was a truly scintillating advocate of an untrammeled free market." These volumes bring together his greatest works and represents the early generation of English translations. These translators were like Bastiat himself, people from the private sector who had a love of knowledge and truth and who altered their careers to vigorously pursue intellectual ventures, scholarly publishing, and advocacy of free trade. Thus does this collection, totally 1,000 pages plus extensive indexes, represent some of the best economics ever written. He was the first, and one of the very few, to be able to convincingly communicate the basic propositions of economics. The vast majority of people who have learned anything about economics have relied on Bastiat or publications that were influenced by his work. This collection—possibly more than anything ever written about economics—is the antidote for economic illiteracy regarding such things as the inadvisability of tariffs and price controls, and everyone from the novice to the Ph.D. economist will benefit from reading it. The collection consists of three sections, the first of which contains his best-known essays. In “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen,” Bastiat equips the reader to become an economist in the first paragraph and then presents the story of the broken window where a hoodlum is thought to create jobs and prosperity by breaking windows. Bastiat solves the quandary of prosperity via destruction by noting that while the apparent prosperity is seen, what is unseen is that which would have been produced had the windows not been broken. Professor Jörg Guido Hülsmann credits Bastiat for discovering the counterfactual method, which allowed Bastiat to show that destruction (and a variety of government policies) is actually the path to poverty, not prosperity. This lesson is then applied to a variety of more complex cases and readers will never be able to deny that scarcity exists and will always—hopefully—remember that every policy has an opportunity cost. If nothing else, they will not believe—as is often claimed—that earthquakes, hurricanes, and wars lead to prosperity. The remaining essays cover the important institutions of society—law, government, money, and capital—where Bastiat explains the nature of these institutions and disabuses the reader of all the common misconceptions regarding them. The second section is Bastiat’s Economic Sophisms, a collection of 35 articles on the errors of protectionism broadly conceived. Here Bastiat shows his mastery of the methods of argumentation— using basic logic and taking arguments to their logical extreme—to demonstrate and ridicule them as obvious fallacies. In his “Negative Railroad” Bastiat argues that if an artificial break in a railroad causes prosperity by creating jobs for boatmen, porters, and hotel owners, then there should be not one break, but many, and indeed the railroad should be just a series of breaks—a negative railroad. In his article “An Immense Discovery!” he asks, would it not be easier and faster simply to lower the tariff between points A and B rather than building a new railroad to transport products at a lower cost? His “Petition of the Candlemakers” argues in jest that a law should be passed to require that all doors and windows be closed and covered during the day to prevent the sun from unfairly competing with the makers of candles and that if such a law were passed it would create high-paying jobs in candle and candlestick making, oil lamps, whale oil, etc. and that practically everyone would profit as a result. The third section is Bastiat’s Economic Harmonies which was hastily written before his death in 1850 and is considered incomplete. Here he demonstrates that the interests of everyone in society are in harmony to the extent that property rights are respected. Because there are no inherent conflicts in the market, government intervention is unnecessary. Here we find a powerful but sadly neglected defense of the main thesis of old-style liberalism: that society and economy are capable of self-managing. Unless this insight is understood and absorbed, a person can never really come to grips with the main meaning of liberty. VOLUME I Introduction by Mark Thornton I. That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen 1. The Broken Window 2. The Disbanding of Troops 3. Taxes 4. Theaters and Fine Arts 5. Public Works 6. The Intermediaries 7. Protectionism 8. Machinery 9. Credit 10. Algeria 11. Frugality and Luxury 12. He Who Has a Right to Work Has a Right to Profit II. The Law III. Government . IV. What Is Money? V. Capital and Interest 1. Introduction 2. Ought Capital to Produce Interest? 3. What Is Capital? 4. The Sack of Corn 5. The House 6. The Plane 7. What Regulates Interest? VI. Economic Sophisms—First Series Introduction 1. Abundance—Scarcity 2. Obstacle—Cause 3. Effort—Result 4. To Equalize the Conditions of Production 5. Our Products Are Burdened with Taxes 6. Balance of Trade 7. Petition of the Manufacturers of Candles 8. Differential Duties—Tariffs 9. Immense Discovery 10. Reciprocity 11. Nominal Prices 12. Does Protection Raise Wages? 13. Theory—Practice 14. Conflict of Principles 15. Reciprocity Again 16. Obstruction—The Plea of the Protectionist 17. A Negative Railway 18. There Are No Absolute Principles 19. National Independence 20. Human Labor—National Labor 21. Raw Materials 22. Metaphors 23. Conclusion VII. Economic Sophisms—Second Series 1. Natural History of Spoliation 2. Two Systems of Morals 3. The Two Hatchets 4. Lower Council of Labor 5. Dearness—Cheapness 6. To Artisans and Workmen 7. A Chinese Story 8. Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc 9. The Premium Theft—Robbery by Subsidy 10. The Tax Gatherer 11. Protection; or, The Three City Aldermen 12. Something Else 13. The Little Arsenal of the Free-Trader 14. The Right Hand and the Left 15. Domination by Labor Index VOLUME II VIII. Harmonies of Political Economy (Book One) To the Youth of France 1. Natural and Artificial Organization 2. Wants, Efforts, Satisfactions 3. Wants of Man 4. Exchange 5. Of Value 6. Wealth 7. Capital 8. Property—Community 9. Landed Property 10. Competition Concluding Observations IX. Harmonies of Political Economy (Book Two) 11. Producer—Consumer 12. The Two Aphorisms 13. Rent 14. Wages 15. Saving 16. Population 17. Private and Public Services 18. Disturbing Causes 19. War 20. Responsibility 21. Solidarity 22. Social Motive Force 23. Existence of Evil 24. Perfectibility 25. Relationship of Political Economy and Religion Index |
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Lysander Spooner Let's Abolish Government http://mises.org/books/spooner-text.pdf Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) is the American individualist anarchist and legal theorist known mainly for setting up a commercial post office in competition with the government and thereby being shut down. But he was also the author of some of the most radical political and economic writings of the 19th century, and continues to have a huge influence on libertarian thinkers today. He was a dedicated opponent of slavery in all its forms — even advocating guerrilla war to stop it — but also a dedicated opponent of the federal invasion of the South and its postwar reconstruction. This collection was selected personally by Murray Rothbard as his best work. It includes "Trial by Jury," which argues for the idea of jury nullification, that is, the right of the jury to reject the law under which a defendant is tried. It also includes his "Letter to Grover Cleveland," which remains one of the most rigorous pieces of political argument ever penned. Finally, it includes his classic work "No Treason," which argues that the U.S. Constitution is not a social contract at all and that it cannot bind the current generation. Spooner was obviously a great dissident -- and one of the most brilliant thinkers of the 19th century and an American original. His influence has been quiet but very long and pervasive. |
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Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication Of Moral Liberty
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You will like the other selections that I have posted.
For an understanding of economic theory, Menger and the other Austrian economists are highly recommended. It is unfortunate that the leading proponents of Menger's theory of economics has been taken over by the jews. I have only posted those books that expand on Menger's work. On the political side, I have posted some books from American Individualist Anarchists from the 19th century, before the jews corrupted the theories of Individualist Anarchism around the turn of the century. These men of the 19th century took Thomas Jefferson's ideas of natural rights to a whole new level. Over the last 25-30 years, I must have read over 400 books on economics and political economy. |
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No online version of this book is available. This is the story of two unemployed men, along with their Catholic priest, who set out to form what became one of the largest and most powerful co-operatives in the world today.
Instead of bitching about the political oppression they faced, they did something. Have not read this book in 20 years, but I do remember that their story is one that all of us should read, as we become forced to build our own co-operatives (PLEs) for our own survival, instead of continuing to bitch and moan about our current plight. We Build the Road as We Travel Mondragon, a cooperative social system by Roy Morrison Quote:
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Austrian Economics Home Study Course Audio Files
http://mises.org/resources/2022 For those of you who do not read books, here is a summary of most of the books on economics that I will be posting in audio form. I have not listen to any of it, take what you can use and discard the rest. |
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I do think a very serious problem with WN is that generally they are about the level of Democrats when it comes to economic knowledge: they basically want the governement to do everything it does now, just with whites at the helm. But I think the great opportunity of our times will be combining radical decentralization (once the Great Dejewing is complete) with racial monoculture. I've called this White-Man-ism. Both the man and the race are important. Neither can be ignored. Neither can be exalted. Both must be respected in their proper sphere and proportion. White subsidiarity, as it were. |
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Distributism
"There are some Catholic conservatives who seem to think they are striking a blow for traditional Catholicism and against liberalism and the Enlightenment by opposing the free market and favoring some alternative--usually the so-called "distributism" of G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, according to which that social system is best in which productive property is widely dispersed rather than concentrated. These two figures rightly enjoy great renown throughout the Catholic world for their outstanding writing on a variety of subjects, though of course they had no formal training in economics.
In 1871, Carl Menger had written his Principles of Economics, a work of profound genius that essentially launched the Austrian School of economics, but relatively few Catholics who spoke on the so-called "social question" made a serious attempt to reckon with it, or indeed were even aware of it. Those who have written on distributism in recent months appear to share in this ignorance, never once citing even a single economics text--as if a discipline that is devoted to the application of human reason to the problems of scarcity in the world could actually in itself be antagonistic to the Catholic faith. http://mises.org/daily/1062 |
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It's not called the dismal science for nothing. Establishment economists are generally as worthless as Women's Studies majors. I'm not saying it excuses ignorance, but you could spend years reading Keynesian texts and end up far stupider than when you started.
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My very last post in that user group, back in 2003, I lambasted them for not recognizing that racial separation is also a valid economic preference, and that Austrian Economics' weakest area is not recognizing that value judgement. I, too, stopped reading LewRockwell.com back in 2003. Around the same time, on Stormfront, I was being called everything in the book, from being a jew to a race traitor, just for suggesting that White Nationalists study the science of Economics and for suggesting Rothbard's "Man, Economy, and State". Carl Menger's "Economic Principles" can be a hard read, but if one can get through Rothbard's book first, then they will be able to appreciate Menger's masterpiece that much better. Quote:
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One of the all time classics, now on audio......
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